Biography

Born in Maribor, 1963; BA in ethnology and philosophy (1991), MA in cultural anthropology (1995), PhD in ethnology (1998). In 2009 he was elected full professor. He worked as a part-time journalist and redactor (1986-1998), served as the chief editor of the journal Glasnik SED and its monographs collection (1994-1997). He was a founder and the first editor of the monograph series Zupaničeva knjižnica (1999-2002). He is a member of more than a dozen international and domestic professional associations (vice-president of the IUAES, president of the Slovenian association Kula), bodies and editorial boards and is active in organisation of international conferences and summer schools (Mess; Easa; Konitsa Summer School in Anthropology, Ethnography and Comparative Folklore of the Balkans; Border Crossings Network).

Teaching

BA studies: Methodology in Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology; Theories of Culture, Identities and Ways of Life; Kinship and Social Structure; seminars on related topics.

MA studies: Epistemology of Daily Life; Anthropology of Popular Music; Popular Cultures

1. The Yugoslav Dark Side of Humanity: A View from a Slovene Blind Spot.' In Neighbors at War: Anthropological Perspectives on Yugoslav Ethnicity, Culture, and History. Joel M. Halpern and David A. Kideckel, eds. The Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park 2000, pp. 56-77.

3. In the Arms of the Sublime Objects of Desire: On Politics and Anthropology/Ethnology in Slovenia.' In A Post-Comunist Millenium: The Struggles for Sociocultural Anthropology in Central and Eastern Europe. Prague Studies in Sociocultural Anthropology 2. Petr Skalník, ed. Set Out, Prague 2002, pp. 147-165.

8. 'Forefathers and Successors at the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Ljubljana: Paths in the Development of Slovene Ethnology/Cultural Anthropology.' Studia Ethnologica Croatica 20(2008): 107-125.

9. 'Live Popular Music Venues as Sites of Cultural Mediation: Views from Slovenia and Japan.' Studia Ethnologica 14(2008): 53-65.

15. Deceptive Tentacles of the Authenticating Mind: On Authenticity and Some Other Notions that are Good for Absolutely Nothing. In: Debating Authenticity: Concepts of Modernity in Anthropological Perspective. Fillitz, Thomas, and A. Jamie Saris, eds. Berghahn Books, Oxford in New York 2013, pp. 46-60.

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